Short answer: To exercise my english.
Not-so-long answer: As the majority of the people who starts a blog, I don't really expect to have much readers. So, I found another reason to blog: learning to express some ideas in a language that I don't master. I'm very good at reading english, as it is a very needed skill if you are a programmer. But at writing, I'm not so good. I'm forced to spend too much time on every english text I write, and think that's just matter of practice.
So, if you (the imaginary reader) find any error on my writings, please correct me.
I also have to admit that I'm bad at speaking and listening english. I'm watching english movies with english subtitles to fix the later, but don't know how to improve the former.
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1 day ago
7 comments:
My english is happy new year
about your english :
"I don't realistically expect having much readers"
maybe would be better writed as :
"I don't REALLY expect having much readers"
Leo : your english is much better than mine.... but , you are right, write in english is a good excercise...
Thanks, I fixed it.
Hi, Leo...
Well, I'm not a programmer but I'm an English Teaching student.
Let me say that your written English is very good.
Well.. the error I found was:
I also have to admit that I'm bad at speaking and LISTENING english.
The verb LISTEN is always followed by TO.. you cannot say LISTEN SOMETHING.. you LISTEN TO SOMETHING.
So.. now you know that you
LISTEN TO MUSIC...
LISTEN TO THE RADIO...
LISTEN TO THAT SONG THAT YOU LOVE...
LISTEN TO YOUR FRIENDS, etc.
=) bye!
(I love languages!)
Ahh..
I forgot something..
(maybe I forgot many other things)
MUCH is uncountable
MANY is countable..
It means that you use MUCH with things that you cannot count like "LOVE" "FREEDOM" "KNOWLEDGE", etc.
On the contrary, MANY is used with things you can count, such as FRIENDS, PENS, READERS, etc.
Also, when you use the verb EXPECT you EXPECT SOMETHING, EXPECT TO DO SOMETHING or EXPECT SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING.
So the write sentence would be:
"I don't really expect to have many readers"
The verb EXPECT is followed by the infinitive form (American Inside Out. Student's Book. Upper Intermediate. Unit 2 - Family. P 18)
=)
haha..
"So the RIGHT sentence"
I'm crazy I think.. I was thinking of the sound maybe (WRITE = RIGHT phoneticly speaking)
=B
Bye Leo =)
Hey Carla!
Thanks you very much for your corrections. I'm sure won't forget the many/much distinction. After your explanation, it makes much sense! ;)
By the way, I think that my confusion was influenced by the spanish language, where many/much is muchos/mucho respectively. Pretty much the same!
Don't know why, but I have found a bit harder to remember the "expect to" and "listen to" rules.
Anyway, if you like languages so much, you should blog, pointing this kind of common mistakes we people learning english do. I would follow it for sure.
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